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Young and Old

It’s night time in the big city.

A man bangs the 8 ball into the corner pocket.

Neon sputters and goes out.

(Smells Like Teen Spirit (instrumental) – The Bad Plus)

Bob reads from William Shakespeare “As usual, Willie the Shake / Sheik said everything you need to say, so for the next hour we’ll just be presenting footnotes of a musical variety on the subject of youth and age, young and old…”

Singers and Songs

Albert King

As the Years Go Passing By

(NBC background music)

Mose Allison

Young Man Blues

“Here’s that madman, the gentleman out of Tippo, MS, no stranger to you long-time listeners.”

“Recorded for A & M. And I believe the A & M Studios were on the site of Charlie Chaplin’s old studio, right there on Labrea. I’m not sure if this song was recorded there, but it would be somehow appropriate because Charlie Chaplin was definitely an older guy who had a taste for the younger girls.”

Muddy Waters

Young Fashioned Ways

“Maybe some day there will be a question on the Trivial Pursuit card ‘Who was the first artist ever played on TTRH.”

“Interestingly, oftentimes when Charlie Poole performed live, he would obscure parts of the lyrics when he sang. He forced record buyers to buy his records, simply so they could figure out what he was singing…He was known as a country artist, so that’s mostly what he recorded, but if you saw him live, you would hear a mixture of minstrel songs, Victorian ballads, humorous burlesque-type numbers, as well as old-timey country music.”

Record Labels

Other Songs and Albums

“One of the most famous songs Hoagie ever wrote was Stardust, and like many songwriters, he wasn’t sure where it really came from. This is what he had to say, the first time he heard a recording of Stardust: ‘And then it happened, that queer sensation that this melody was bigger than me. Maybe I hadn’t written it at all. The recollection of how, when, and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, maybe I didn’t write you, but I found you’… I know just what he meant.”

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